Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb

34 reviews

lizziaha's review against another edition

3.75

okay the age gap relationships are starting to get weird. Robin, what’s going on there?? I feel like this book is just an exercise in “hindsight is 20/20.” You can see the characters making the wrong decisions and you just want to stop them. And let me tell you, boy do these characters make the wrong decisions. Choice after choice after choice. The characters are realistic, but at what cost?? This book was at times very hard to read because it was just so bleak. I’m interested to see where it goes, but also scared. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Misogyny, Sexism, and Trafficking

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Alcohol, Blood, Murder, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug use, and Physical abuse

Minor: Sexual assault, Rape, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, and Suicide

vampires's review against another edition

4.5

i really liked this but i have such a hard time rating these idk why like there's so much that happened that i can't parse it out for a rating the way i usually do

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Slavery, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Drug use, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Grief, and Rape

irbix13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Classism, Death of parent, Grief, and Sexism

noeyy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Gore, Child abuse, and Slavery

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, Misogyny, and Kidnapping

Minor: Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

lanna_aud's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Trafficking, Slavery, Sexism, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Pedophilia, Drug use, Suicide, and Rape

maithaalfalasi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, Slavery, and Child abuse

errie's review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Trafficking, Confinement, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Bullying, Kidnapping, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Child abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Police brutality

Moderate: Miscarriage, Infertility, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Classism, Drug use, Excrement, Alcohol, Abortion, Abandonment, Torture, and Sexual violence

s_blevins_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

This book is not for the faint at heart! It takes a while for the story and world to develop and get rolling, but once it does, you better buckle up, baby! Character and plot development are exceptional in true, Robin fashion. She immerses you in the world and lives of the characters in a way no other author can.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Blood, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Classism, and Death of parent

hilwithonel's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Look, I grew up on the farseer books. My favorite of all time.

And then I read this.

Robin Hobb's writing is.... perfect????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Violence, and Child abuse

Moderate: Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Death of parent, and Sexual assault

Minor: Sexism

briely's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Slavery

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Death of parent, Blood, Animal death, Miscarriage, and Drug use